Chapter 111 The guardian on the rock

I have to admit that this will has a strange kind of charm. Without any defense, it really makes one feel the urge to jump into the water regardless of everything, even though at this time, various vicious underwater creatures can be faintly seen on the surface of the water, and even occasionally a huge shadow swims by.

Fortunately, I did not really do so. I was able to resist this temptation according to my ability.

I don’t think this is the presence of Pater underwater. He really made a move, but it was just a test.

However, this seemingly “peaceful” test did not last long. When we finished the first array together, the “storm” came.

I don’t know how to describe the feeling at the time, but I remember that when I used cinnabar to draw the last stroke of the first pattern, the rock we were on began to shake violently. I had never experienced an earthquake, but the violent shaking of the rock at that moment made me feel like it was a real earthquake.

Although the rock was very large, the shaking made me stand unsteadily, and my body rolled uncontrollably towards the edge of the rock. I tried to stabilize my body, but found that everyone else was doing the same thing. This shaking would shake us all into the water!

I was inexplicably affected the most, and the place where I was located was the most violently shaking. Even if I lay down, I could not resist this force. I was constantly moving closer to the edge of the rock. The slippery moss became a ‘killer’ at this time. I could not stop it, and I could only watch helplessly as my body kept moving with the shaking.

Even those close to me were unable to stop the inexplicable violent shaking. They were also powerless. In the face of this seemingly divine “earthquake,” they could not even control their own bodies.

When I was less than half a meter away from the edge of the rock and about to roll down, a pair of hands finally grabbed my body. It was Uncle Johnny. While all of us were affected by the violent shaking, he was the only one who remained motionless, as if he couldn’t feel the violent shaking.

His expression was calm, but he said to me in a very relaxed tone, “You rolled over so fast, I ran over from that side and just made it in time.”

“Uncle Johnny, I admire you for being able to run so fast during an earthquake… Did Patel do it? It’s very powerful.” I glanced at the corner of my eye and saw that under the rock, more than a dozen underwater monsters had swum over, waiting for me to roll down. I was secretly lucky in my heart, but I was trying to appear relaxed.

“If Patel is so powerful that he can cause an earthquake, it won’t be us who will deal with him, but those people who rule the country and have long been out of touch with the world. The point is that you didn’t see through this trick. The rock didn’t vibrate at all. It affected your soul when you were unprepared! It’s like a person who is dizzy and has no control over their body. The scenery they see is also shaking, and they even feel the earth tilting… This is a feeling from the soul that you need to resist with your will.” While he was talking, Uncle Johnny pulled me back and then let go of his hand.

“Try to resist with your will. You have completed the first formation. It involuntarily feels Li’s breath, so it will naturally not let you get away easily. You should know that Li is the most feared person in Patel’s life.” Grandpa Johnny said.

At the moment when Uncle Johnny let go of my hand, I still instinctively felt a violent shaking, but as Uncle Johnny said, there was nothing to see through this trick. Using my will to resist the influence from the soul, the shaking soon subsided.

“Complete the formation with peace of mind. I will protect you. As long as you are on this rock, Pater will not dare to do anything, because there is Diya here, and that is the only thing he is afraid of. He dares not disturb Diya’s sleep.” Uncle Johnny’s tone was calm, but a hint of sadness could be seen in his eyes. I realized that he was actually forcing himself to calm down.

After eliminating the soul influence brought by Pater, I couldn’t help but ask, “Uncle Johnny, although this is your privacy, I really want to ask, who is Zoya? What is the cause and effect of all this? I know you may not want to say, but this may be very important to us, and it is the key to our recovery of Pater.”

“Do you really want to know?” Uncle Johnny asked calmly, which was rare for him.

“Of course, all opportunities can only be found in the context of all the causes and effects.” I didn’t say this, but my master said it to me. Opportunities may seem like coincidences, but in fact they are also a kind of result. The root of any event must be found in the context of all the causes and effects. Nothing is a free lunch. It is the cause you have sown and the fruit you have borne that has doomed you to everything.

“That makes sense. Now that things have come to this, I’m not going to hide it anymore. You go ahead and complete the formation. You’ll know everything.” After saying this, Uncle Johnny paused for a moment, then turned and glanced at the somewhat illusory red flower, and said softly, “If it weren’t for Ziya here, the attack you just had to endure would have been ten times more violent than this. Patel let you come to the rock because he has many ways to get you to go underwater and die in the belly of the fish! Even if you escape these vicious fish, you will eventually have to face Patel underwater… Although your breath will make it uneasy, in its eyes, you are still just small shrimps.

I was silent. Small shrimp? Maybe it is!

After saying this, Uncle Johnny turned around, but his voice still reached my ears: “Everything we say, he, Patal, can hear. But I am not afraid to declare one thing to him, that is, I am gambling with him, and these little shrimps also have the ability to bury him. I, Sharma, am also fearless. What I rely on is Dya, Patal. If you want, you can disregard everything and even hurt Dya.”

As soon as Uncle Jonny finished speaking, a cold wind suddenly blew up on the rocks, blowing our hair around, but Uncle Jonny turned around and shouted angrily, “Are you still angry? Look at what you’ve done to my lovely Dya! Don’t you see the ghosts on the river? You can continue. The rocks are a group of practitioners, and they are more resistant to Dya’s lonely soul than you are… Try it! You coward, does the mere mention of Li make you feel afraid? Aren’t you invincible and unbeatable? Didn’t you steal the sacred object and finally gain the recognition of the sacred object? You damned despicable rat!”

Master Johnny cursed loudly. If someone else were to see him, he would look like a madman, cursing at the howling wind. But it wasn’t funny at all, because we all knew that he was actually talking to a mysterious, powerful being—Patel.

As Uncle Johnny said, Diao Ya made him fearless. This kind of cursing stopped the wild howling wind, and the hazy light fell on the rock and the red flower that was slightly trembling. Everything calmed down again, and the picture was frozen on Uncle Johnny’s angry but sad face.

“Go and complete the formation. I’m sorry to have made such a scene in front of you young people,” said Uncle Johnny, his voice a little tired.

Hui Gen was full of curiosity at that age, and could no longer resist asking loudly, “Who is this Yaya?”

Without turning around, he walked over to the red flower and sat down again. He answered in a tired but tender voice: “Dya? Dya is my sister, my only sister, my sister with the same mother and father. I love her as much as people love the sun in the sky and the Ganges flowing quietly on the Indian land. She is the most beautiful zambuka (a golden flower, a sacred object of Indian Buddhism, which is a golden flower of magnolia) in the heart of each of us.”

Sister? Finally, we got an answer from Uncle Johnny. We originally thought that Dya was Uncle Johnny’s lover, but we didn’t expect to get such an answer.

But everyone could see that Uncle Johnny was tired, so no one pursued the matter further, and Uncle Johnny promised us that after completing the formation, he would reveal the scene from that year to us, allowing us to find a chance in the cause and effect.

So, the rocks once again returned to a state of quietude.

The sound of the wind blowing, the sound of the water waves, the occasional sound of something stirring the water, and the sound of our breathing as we carefully and attentively worked on the formation…

It was like a quiet afternoon, with a series of quiet scenes, but this was also the last peace we had left.

Or maybe it was because of the mention of Diao Yue that Patil didn’t come to cause trouble again, and our formation was successfully completed after more than two hours!

This made us feel the magic of the master. With the diagram, we completed the formation, just like a primary school student drawing a picture according to the diagram. But in fact, we really didn’t expect that even if the five of us worked together, it still took more than two hours to complete the formation.

At the moment the formation was completed, the sky turned overcast, perhaps just the fog obscured the originally clear sky.

In fact, once we entered this deep pool, we could no longer see the sky outside, and could only see the sky above our heads. It was like a frog at the bottom of a well. I sensed that the weather here was like a kind of expression of Patel’s mood.

“Is it done?” asked Uncle Johnny.

We spent so much time on the formation, and he guarded the red flower for so long. At the moment he asked us, I really had some doubts that the red flower was Ziya, even though this idea was somewhat ridiculous.

“Mm,” Chengzhen replied softly, as if he couldn’t bear to speak loudly to Uncle Johnny.

All along, we had not had the realization that he was an old man, because he was always hot-tempered, full of vitality, and even pretending to be strong. Only at this moment did Uncle Johnny give us a feeling of decrepitude, so Chengzhen had this reluctance, afraid that he would be disturbed if he spoke loudly.

“Mmm,” said Uncle Johnny, and then his tired and sad voice rang out again on the rocks: “Come on, it’s time to mention the cause and effect of your promise again.”